2008/6/5 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
Andrew Garrett wrote:
The TorBlock extension will override local IP blocks to provide a consistent treatment of tor.
I've disabled this behaviour for now, so that we can have a more orderly phase-in period with community discussion. Admin blocks of Tor exit nodes will continue to work. The new protections which have been introduced will also work, and so Tor anonymous users on the English Wikipedia will typically see two block messages.
Thanks for holding off on this :-)
I've asked the other checkusers concerned about this to post useful information to wikitech-l about what we actually see in practice on en:wp (buckets of toxic waste through Tor, the fabulously illustrative case of Runcorn concerning softblocks, etc), so as to supply the devs with good info.
- d.